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Or 5013

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032-003376323
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Or 5013
Title:
Maḥzor, rite of Corfu
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
56 folios
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http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5013 (digital images currently unavailable)
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Languages:
Hebrew
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1700-1799
Era:
CE
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Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Avraham ben Mosheh Bolleli
Joseph Schlesinger
Shabtai ben Yehoshu῾a Musṭaḳi
Shem Ṭov ben Shelomoh Zaḳun
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 5013

Maḥzor, rite of Corfu

Contents

A festival prayer book with services for Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kipur, according to the Corfu rite.

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-56v
Title: Maḥzor
Title: מחזור
ff. 1r-22r
Title: Services for Rosh ha-Shanah

Ma῾ariv, folio 2r; shaḥarit, folio 5r; special pieces for the second day, folio 20v.

ff. 22r-56v
Title: Services for Yom Kipur

῾Arvit, folio 22r; shaḥarit, folio 33r; musaf, folio 42v, minḥah, folio 50v; ne῾ilah, folio 52r.

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support:
Extent: 56 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 210 × 145 mm.
Dimensions (written): 180 × 125 mm.
Foliation:

56 folios (+ 1 unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end). Folio 1 is a paper flyleaf.

Collation

Irregular quiring, foldings from 4 to 11 leaves each.

Condition

Stained.

Layout

Columns:1 4

Ruled lines: 28

Written lines: 28

Non-uniform layout. Varying number of columns a page.

Visible hard-point ruling.

Initial words written in larger characters.

Catchwords on every page.

Gilt edges.

Hand(s)

Sefardi (Greek?) square script, punctuated, of the 18th century.

Additions:

Binding

BM/BL in-house.

Spine: 'Services for New Year and Day of Atonement. Corfu Rite. Hebrew. Brit. Mus. Or. 5013.'

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century Ottoman Empire (Corfu)

Provenance and Acquisition

Shem Ṭov ben Shelomoh Zaḳun: inscribed, folio 1r.

Records of circumcision of Avraham ben Mosheh Bolleli (?), dated 5556 (1796), and Shabtai ben Yehoshu῾a Musṭaḳi (?), dated 5557 (1797): inscribed, folio 56v.

1896-05-13

Joseph Schlesinger: purchased from him on 13 May 1896: inscribed, folio [58v].

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on Margoliouth, G.: Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1965.

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_5013 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    George Margoliouth, Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: British Museum, 1899-1935; vols I-III repr. 1965); IV, Introduction, Indexes, ed. by Jacob Leveen (London: British Museum, 1977), no. 687.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL